Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 6

A Mysterious Voyage
Alliance Primary School, Kowloon Tong, Liu, Tsz Wing - 12
One fine summer morning, I woke up to the sway of the ship. I sat up and rubbed my eyes, not
accustomated to the bright sunlight pouring in from the lower deck windows. I looked around at the crew
and saw that Captain was not in his hammock. I quickly ran up the stairs to the upper deck. I saw Captain
sitting there, staring out over the ocean from his chair. “Good morning,” Captain said. “Morning Captain,”
I said respectively and saluted. “Where are we heading now?” I asked curiously. “We are going back home!
It’s almost time to go back to celebrate the King’s birthday and everyone in the kingdom needs to attend.”
Captain said excitedly. “Great!” I said enthusiastically. I quickly ran down to the hammock room and started
packing up for the trip to return home.
A few days later on a quiet evening, everyone was sleeping except for the sailor on his night shift steering
the ship. Suddenly, we heard a thunderous yell of horror travelling down from the upper deck. Everyone
immediately sprang awake and rushed up the staircase in their pajamas. “What? What happened?” A crew
member asked in a deep state of confusion. “I…I went in the wrong direction. We are now heading
towards… The Dead Sea.” Everyone instantly broke into a nervous murmur. Rumor has it that no ship that
has went into the Dead Sea has ever returned.
“Silence!” Captain yelled suddenly. “Everybody go change, then load the cannons, gather your weapons,
and report here after fifteen minutes. Go!” He ordered. Everyone immediately sprang into action, and
fifteen minutes a group of well-dressed crew stood on the deck, ready for battle.
“Ok,” Captain said, pacing around in front of us,” Let’s say there is a crew of…evil people standing on a
ship in front of us. If this happens, we will first fire the cannons at their ship. If they manage to board our
ship, we will all pair up and have a sword fight. Ok, possibility number 2. Let’s say……”
We continued discussing possibilities and strategies through out the night and when morning came, all of us
were exhausted but didn’t dare to sleep. Suddenly we heard a thunderous noise and huddled together. A
loud rumbling noise echoed around us for miles around. Out of nowhere, an enormous wave unexpectedly
rose in front of us, and a gigantic sea monster appeared. It had eyes the size of a small table, body the size of
twenty elephants, and teeth as sharp as razor knives. “Ok, the answer is strategy number two hundred and
seventeen. Peter, you first!” Captain yelled out. Peter immediately ran around in circles on the deck,
yelling,” Get me! Get me!” The monster immediately bent down to try to scoop Peter up, but failed as
Peter was so tiny he could slip between its fingers. “Will and Jake, you’re up!” Captain yelled. Will and Jake
immediately jumped up the monster’s arm and ran up to its eyes, took out a knife and stabbed it once in
each eye, then slid back down to the ship. The monster yelled out in agony, clasping his eyes. “Everyone,
last step!” Captain yelled frantically. All of us immediately aimed one of the cannons at the monster’s head
and fired, once, twice, thrice! At the third time, it finally froze, then fell down towards the ocean floor, and
it never resurfaced. All of us cheered in victory, and gathered around and yelled in celebration. But before
we could react, an enormous whirlpool appeared right beneath us and swallowed our whole ship up.
We were swirling in blackness, and we clutched to each other in confusion. After a few minutes, we finally
slowed down and the sun’s warm rays shined upon us. I opened my eyes slowly. We were bobbing up and
down on a very blue ocean, and we can see land just a kilometer ahead of us! “Straight ahead!” Captain
ordered. The sailor immediately steered the ship towards that direction. Once ashore we can see roads, large
carriages without horses moving, and tall buildings looming above us. Everyone also stared at us peculiarly.
Everything was just so…strange. An innocent little girl came up to us “Excuse me, can I help you? You
look lost.” She was looking at us curiously. “Can you tell us where this is?” I asked bravely. “Why, sir,
you’re in Hong Kong.” She answered me. “What year is this?” I asked again. “The year 2019!” She
answered, looking at us in bewilderment. “We went in the future…” Captain said absentmindedly.